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Carl Richardson

ADA Coordinator/504/Diversity Officer for the Massachusetts State House and president of Guide Dog Users of Massachusetts; DeafBlind accessibility advocate in Boston.

Mar 26, 2026

42:52
It's a hard thing to give up.
42:53
Yeah, and I want it back.
42:57
And I never thought I'd get it back, but I now believe someday within my lifetime.
43:03
We might have to convince the politicians you don't need to have eyesight to be able to have the ability to drive an autonomous vehicle, but I think we can do it because it isn't just about blind people.
43:15
Everybody has a mother they have to take away their driving from.
43:18
Everybody has a father where they say, "Dad, I don't know if you should drive anymore." Everybody has a teenager who's texting on their phone.
43:26
See, we're not even beginning to think about the possibilities of what autonomous vehicles could do.

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52:40
Like, do you-
33:13
They said that by failing to provide captions on some of its streaming content, the company had denied equal access to the deaf and hard of hearing community.
33:22
And rather than lose the court case, Netflix agreed voluntarily to caption 100% of the films and TV shows on Netflix.
33:34
And it was then that the American Council of the Blind decided, let's see if we have a shot for doing audio description.
33:40
Now,
37:24
Because one of the biggest obstacles they currently face is public awareness.
37:28
I'm just unaware that blind people watch movies.
37:32
But if you go to the Audio Description Project website, which is ADP for Audio Description Project, .ACB for American Council of the Blind.org, we have over 13,000 titles.
37:44
Now that's a drop in the bucket to every movie that's ever made.

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